Top Gear Apocalypse: What car would you spend your last fuel on?

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Oh wow I wasn't expecting this thread to appear again... I can't believe it's been two years since I started this thread :odd: .
 
I'd love to spend it on the first car under my ownership, a 2013 Volkswagen Jetta GLI Mk6. I will push it, while having a mental recollection of the great feeling in finally having my own car, the fun I experienced in it, and other considerable effects it had on me:

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If I had to pick one car with the last tank of fuel on the planet, it would have to be a Singer Porsche 911. Just that car, an abandoned desert road, and playing Nightcall by Kavinsky.

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I would devote my last bit of fuel to getting more fuel.
Some kind of diesel that can run on biodiesel.
 
Grayfox
I would devote my last bit of fuel to getting more fuel.
Some kind of diesel that can run on biodiesel.
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Yes but it's the nuclear winter. How do you grow fuel crops?

Worth remembering this rule (it's the whole premise of Apocalypse). Solar panels and photosynthesis do not function in the perpetual gloom.
 
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The Stig Farmer
Worth remembering this rule (it's the whole premise of Apocalypse). Solar panels and photosynthesis do not function in the perpetual gloom.
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In that case what I'd be spending my last tank of fuel on would be the least of my worries, my ability to breathe would be my primary concern.
 
Grayfox
I would devote my last bit of fuel to getting more fuel.
Some kind of diesel that can run on biodiesel.
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Given that is a good idea to make more fuel, growing crops in apocalyptic winters will be an absolute nightmare :p .
 
Guess you could grow stuff indoors with hydroponics or something.

But then the EMP shock from the bombs will have fried everything electrical.

Crap.
 
The Stig Farmer
Guess you could grow stuff indoors with hydroponics or something.

But then the EMP shock from the bombs will have fried everything electrical.

Crap.
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I thought EMPs only fry electronics that are turned on. /offtopic
 
The Stig Farmer
I have no idea.

And it's wholly on topic. Maybe it would make sense to pick a properly old car with minimal electronics that can go wrong.
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We're supposed to be talking about cars, not means of growing food in a post-apocalyptic world.
 
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Set about trying to get one of these up to 250 klicks again, with Battle by blur blaring out the sound system.
 
I agree with Doog MSTER, and James May. I'd drive a MINI. They're just fantastic. It's obvious what my favorite car is, but the MINI (classic and modern) are 2nd on the list. :) The problem with driving a Lister, such as the Knobbly (pictured), is that they'll burn though the fuel quicker. Even if you get the 3.8 L Jaguar Inline 6 rather than the Chevrolet V8, it's still not as long-lasting as a MINI, even the Cooper Sport, although just the basic MINI is good fun.

2014 Lister Knobbly 3.8
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If spending my last fuel on a MINI wasn't an option, I'd spend it on a Triumph Spitfire.
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I'd spend the last fuel on earth hooning on the back roads in an R8 V8 S-Tronic.
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It's a little more fuel efficient than the V10 and the S-Tronic will also help eek out that last bit of fuel.
 
AudiMan2011
I'd spend the last fuel on earth hooning on the back roads in an R8 V8 S-Tronic.
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It's a little more fuel efficient than the V10 and the S-Tronic will also help eek out that last bit of fuel.
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But it doesn't have the same V10 sound.
 

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